"Quickly I showered, changed from work-clothes to leisure-uniform, jumped in the paternoster and, after a few moments, was standing on the street above."

Pre-1984 dystopia from hip chick Karin Boye. Quotation is much better in Swedish, with their condensed words: "arbetskläderna" coupled with "fritidsuniform" is so much more poignant than in my translation. Eller hur?